tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24119820286893257922024-02-19T07:14:07.237+00:00ChocolatThis is my third dolls house/miniature project (Summer 2013). It is inspired by the book and the movie Chocolat.burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411982028689325792.post-44362693206825151512015-04-12T16:24:00.004+01:002015-04-12T16:24:41.780+01:00What am I doing now?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a link to all my blog addresses if you want to see what I am working on now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">York is truly one of my very favourite shows: here's a link telling you about it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope to continue in the hobby and carry on going to shows and writing for DH & MS magazine but I shall be working in Quarter Scale (1/48th). Fingers crossed it grabs me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My starting project is a bit of a challenge for folk who know what they are doing - nothing like jumping in at the deep end. Take a look at: <a href="http://thelewisgatehouse.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">The Gatehouse</a> and follow me there if you want to see how I get on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile The Willows has gone to a lady who is organising her own doll's house fair this month and it will be on show there as a work in progress and will be completed and brought back next year to show the finished project. If you can possibly get to Rochdale on 25th August do try to support her (and her husband's) hard work. It sounds as if it will be fun.</span><br />
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Exhibition of Dolls Houses and box rooms. Exhibition of Miniature working steam engines. Scalextric challenge (for Charity). Various small scale traders.</div>
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burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411982028689325792.post-41605689327647822652014-04-06T12:04:00.001+01:002014-04-06T12:04:35.584+01:00New project<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have started a new project. Click here if you want to look at it </span><a href="http://themountfield.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">The Willows</a><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and don't forget to 'follow by email' if you want to follow its progress.</span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411982028689325792.post-68988040136618195572014-02-18T01:44:00.001+00:002014-02-18T01:44:19.131+00:00Just a little something<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I visited the Orlando show for a three day weekend; took a class and did some shopping and worked a little. If you want to know about it you need to go to the <b><u><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://dollshouseshows.blogspot.co.uk/">Dolls House Show</a></span></u></b> blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote a profile on Clara's Cuties a while ago and have since been an utter fan of her work but (other than a pair of shoes) I've not owned a floral piece. It was time to change this so I bought some lovely daffodils for Chocolat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's Barbara Meyer of<a href="http://www.mini-gems.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"> Mini-Gems</a> lovely creation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just in case you find yourself here for the first time I thought I'd let you know how my blogs work. I have one for each project. Some are sold (!), some are finished and some are just ideas with maybe some bits of collecting being done for them; but there will always be one blog with a project in process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do one 'build' in the summer when I am in the UK and plan and buy stuff for it in the winter when I am in the USA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the time of writing my 2013 summer project was </span><a href="http://chocolateriemaya.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chocolat</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. That project is finished and will appear in a series of articles in Dolls House & Miniature Scene magazine next year. It will be probably be sold in the summer of 2014 to make room for the new 1/12th. It might get an extra year with me as my 2014 project is only quarter scale so it has room. My house won't take more than two 1/12ths - one finished and one on the go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am now in Naples in Florida for the winter and other than the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://dollshouseshows.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dolls House Shows</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> blog there really isn't a current one running until I get back to the UK, though I do dip in and out of blogs now and then if something appropriate turns up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Look out for the hive of activity starting at the end of March in my <a href="http://thelewisgatehouse.blogspot.co.uk/">Gate House</a> blog.</span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411982028689325792.post-68912724612511890432013-11-09T15:56:00.000+00:002013-12-26T19:48:28.202+00:00Still here and at Pudsey!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To see what I bought for Chocolat at the Pudsey show please visit my show blog at:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For starters the cuckoo clock will be replaced with a picture - I don't know what possessed me!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The layout is very much as in the movie so I am pleased with that. There is also a light in the stair well now, so that gives a better effect of a further dimension. It is very much a shop of two halves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the counter and a place to prop for a few minutes with a hot chocolate. Vianne, Armand and Anouk are catching up on the day. I need to repaint Vianne but that's not going to happen this month!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PS I know what it needs - masks plates etc - Mayan looking - now where can I get those?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vianne has kicked off her shoes and bag from an earlier shopping trip and her abandoned book is on the chair from last night's reading session. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anouk's part-built card house must stay there until it is either finished or it falls down. Anouk has left her doll to keep an eye on it as she cannot trust her mother not to move it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chess table is set up (It nearly drove me crazy!) ready for a game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The jug is waiting for some forsythia. I bought a True"scale kit but decided it was beyond my capabilities so I am now on the look out for some talented person </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">having </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">already made some.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fire isn't plugged in as it travels from room to room and was in the bedroom last night. February</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is freezing in England. It made it to the kitchen this morning and is now in the sitting room for later on. Please note the radio is plugged in so heaven knows where the fire is going to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anything on the shelves is probably temporary - I shall be on the lookout for appropriate 'trinklements' (another mother expression - boy, this fifties malarkey sets me back).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the bowl of nuts - probably bird seed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The matching set of shelves on the right is stuffed with books and two precious matching trios that belonged to Vianne's mother - they will stay. Again, the rest is a moveable feast. I think the fruit is OK as it is nicely imperfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The music stand and flute are fine there - looks odd near the door but the door opens just fine without impinging on it and it is ready to go whenever its wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ooooh! - wonky hooks - need to straighten those. The picture is The Kiss by Klimt and is seen as further proof of Vianne's immorality by anyone in the village who enters this room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The desk is a working area complete with cash book, stamp and ink pad, blotter, pens, pencils, papers, letters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On top is an eclectic collection from an ormolu clock through a Buddha to a decanter set and a tiny water colour painting. Very much reflecting Vianne's peripatetic life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a box of files on the left of the desk and a over-size book box on the right stuffed with games and magazines to occupy the evenings with Anouk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Come back tomorrow to look at the shop)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the cabinet I showed you yesterday in situ. I made a feeble attempt to hack out some skirting so it would snug in against the wall. You can just see the cutting line on the left if you look carefully - I've moved the cabinet across to cover that now. It was a daft idea on two levels. One it would have made a mess even if it came out and two cabinets weren't built in and they must have sat proud of the skirting board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a tablet of soap near the taps and a box of Swan Vestas left on the drainer. I need a fairy liquid in the right container to go there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The p</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ots and pans are kept on a shelf above the sink along with the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mincer; that is lobbed up there as it is a chunky piece of kit. The cooling tray has had a rinse and is draining alongside a cup and saucer and spoon. basic dishes are on the corner shelves - enough for Anouk and Vianne.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I need a towel and tea towel and hooks for them and maybe a string bag on the back of the door. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a little wooden cupboard on the right hand wall. This is a sort of medicine cabinet and any other personal bits and bobs like a comb. Don't ask, it just was like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The winter veg are waiting to be prepped for dinner and Ollie has just finished his meal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please note the all-essential rug in front of the sink unit. I hope to find (or make) a rag rug to replace this posh looking one. My mother's kitchen had a rug anywhere you might stand for a while as the cold 'would draw your feet' - no idea what that meant. Basically I assumed it was just cold underfoot and a rug made it more comfortable. It also mopped up water drips so they didn't get traipsed all over the lino.</span><br />
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411982028689325792.post-64604980812789865702013-10-13T13:51:00.004+01:002013-10-14T11:27:12.290+01:00Making Jane Harrop's Kichen Cabinet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When all the painting was done - except I forgot the green across the bottom cupboard and across the pull-down flap and had to do it later - it was time to put the doors on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to admit I found this a bit difficult. You can locate one of the pins by sight but the second one has to be done by guess and by God. To explain...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You get two sequin pins per door; you chop their heads off and push the remaining stick through the pre-drilled holes in the shelf and down into the pre-drilled holes in the door. You then do the same through the base and into the door; et voilà, you have two hinges so the door will open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the end result against its kit photo. There are a couple more things I did slightly differently. The ribbon hinges Jan has fitted from the back of the flap to the front of the cabinetwhich makes sense as the ribbons don't get in the way when closing the flap Actually mine don't seem to though they theoretically should have! Maybe also cabinets were like that but I have a memory of ours working this way....???? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also edged the 'enamel' chopping board with a dark blue/black trim. I wonder how many of my memories (pre ten years old!) are correct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, here we are, a useful piece of kitchen kit and almost an iconic thirties through fifties kitchen cupboard. In a house with no fridge, freezer or pantry this is where all your food was stored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have put butter, lard and dripping on the shopping list - not to mention an open bottle of milk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Link: <a href="http://www.janeharrop.co.uk/">Jane Harrop Miniatures</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This building is early Victorian (maybe on an older cottage base) and mansards of poorer buildings weren't covered in lead - far too expensive. They were made from about five layers of felt in the rafters covered with a tarred membrane and topped with gravel encased in a small edging with drainage access. So, in keeping with that, here's the finished roof top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my case, this was made from (wallpaper) lining paper with a thin strip of wood all round; except where the hinges are. I painted this </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">brown acrylic paint and left it to dry - under heavy books. It was then daubed with Elmer's best and the gravel pressed into it. Dried again and stuck down in the same way as the floors with double sided sticky tape - so if there is ever a lighting problem it can be easily removed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shop name is made from sticky back plasticy-paper letters painted gold. It was customary for the local Earl (or large landowner) to fund pubs for their workers; this one was courtesy of Lord Stanley and was called the Stanley Arms. Lucky for Vianne as it meant she could salvage the letters needed for Maya. Good job it wasn't the Lord Raglan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the end result - chocolaterie/patisserie Maya!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might notice it is also almost fully moved in. I'll share those photos with you each day for the next few days. For now let's just raise a glass to Vianne for a job well done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.........and yes, that is champagne. I know how to finish a project!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the lights and floors are in; in fact the skirting boards (kick boards) are also in place now in the living area - there won't be any in the shop. Since lighting it I have decided I need to add another light to the stairs - they seem to disappear. They were too much work for me to be prepared to lose them. It will be a simple job; the back panel will come off, drill a hole and hang a light. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last two pieces of the 'jigsaw' arrived this morning and I could feel the huge tension balloon deflate instantly like it had been pricked with a pin. The end is in sight ...........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My four lovely cakes from <a href="http://www.lifeofrileyminiatures.co.uk/">Life of Riley</a> made just for me - seek her out - buy her lace too! Here they are in situ........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyone in this game for five minutes must know <a href="http://www.janeharrop.co.uk/">Jane Harrop's</a> glorious kits. Go visit if you haven't been for a while - there's new stuff all the time in one scale or another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My all pervading memory of my childhood kitchen cabinet is not a happy one. My mother and a neighbour were sitting 'canting' in the front room, as all good Brummies of those days would say, and I was in the kitchen making myself a cheese sandwich. This entailed opening the cabinet and chopping the cheese on the enamel chopping surface. Not a great range of knives in our house so I chose a large sharp one, against my mother's advice. Clunk, clunk, clunk followed by a blood-curdling scream from me as I noticed little bits of my cheese seemed to be moving...... what ever happened to cheese maggots? The extent of my mother's sympathy was to tell me off for making such a fuss and worrying her and Mrs Manton - they thought I 'd chopped a finger off judging by the screams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Anyone watching Peaky Blinders? That was my mother's Birmingham and was an expression I knew - I just thought it meant a bit of a rogue)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So,the last make for this project (for now) is a kitchen cabinet. I am about to recreate a bit of my childhood in the cabinet and maybe even the cheese, but probably not the maggots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I suppose I should really be struggling to get the doors on but I can fill in my time nicely with stuff like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another great creation just for me from ELF - she is a life-saver. This muddle of a photo is so you don't have to go through the whole process with me - everything I used is here.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small jig to get right angles right-angled from Jane Harrop</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clamps for, you guessed it, clamping from EBay (elastic bands will do)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two pieces of wood, cling film and other clamps (elastic bands will do) for taking any bends out of the thin pieces of wood when they are painted - when still damp, wrap in cling-film and put them between the planks and clamp together.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favourite (Country Cream) cream paint - Shades garden paint by Cuprinol - lovely colours, lovely finish beats acrylic every time if you can find the colour.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Favourite acrylic gloss paint by Martha Stewart - black as black, one coat only, slight sheen. I even used it on a cast iron cooker I made - great stuff</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Absolute favourite painting 'tool' a rub-down sponge thing from B & Q sold to smooth paintwork - great thing - takes out all your brush strokes and leaves silky smooth surface.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My all time best ever glue! I now use this for everything and I mean everything - it glues anything to anything including painted or stained stuff, dries clear and you can paint or stain over any residue. I do windows with it, metal to wood, plastic to whatever etc etc etc. it probably isn't supposed to do everything but truly it hasn't failed me yet. It is deliberately slowish to set so if I don't want to clamp or hold a piece until it gets a grip I just slather it on and put it to one side and do something else for a couple of minutes. It is then tacky-ready to grip its opponent nicely and I don't have to hang around. It is called R/C Modellers Craft Glue by <a href="http://www.deluxematerials.com/">Deluxe Materials</a> but I call it rocket glue because it claims it can withstand impact on rockets taking off and landing. Don't ask them for it by this name though 'cos they have a glue actually called that!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My next bit of construction was something to make Hepplewhite turn in his grave. Not only did his furniture get miniaturised it then got turned in DIY kits. To add insult to injury it ended up being painted green!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In all the jobs I had in my working life I never managed to haunch or flaunch a chimney so apologies for the pretty rough job on these: they are not as smooth as a baby's bottom. I may have a go at smoothing them sometime but for now the pots are 'mortared' in place on top of the bricks and fillet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might remember I have already bought a Warwick/Phoenix kit to do this myself but time is short and I have more pressing things to do (in RL as well as mini world) so I did a short-cut and sent for one of their wonderful ready done pieces. <a href="http://www.countrycontrast.co.uk/">Country Contrast</a> are always in my top ten most wonderful products list and I always try to pick up a little something from their stall whenever I see them at a show just to remind me how great they are and to amass their lovely things over time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />As I said to its creator - this cooker has a special resonance for me as my mother had one (in speckly grey/blue) from the forties until 1994 when she moved to another home and we persuaded her to have a new cooker. Her vitreous enamel coated cast iron old faithful was as immaculate as the day it was born and she was a great cook, so it was in continual use: not to mention it was our only source of heat in our kitchen so it even served as a 'gas fire'. To coin a phrase - they don't make them like that any more - cooker or moms!</span><div>
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411982028689325792.post-11485458008939387062013-10-06T18:44:00.000+01:002013-10-06T18:44:14.090+01:00Two days without email<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I could feel the panic building I decided to send an 'out of office' reply to emails for two days and see if I could crack on with some stuff for Chocolat. It worked like a charm. Just look at what I got done:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the lights went in. Swiftly followed by the floors, touched up paint work and put in skirting boards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know these aren't Ray Storey lights but it didn't work out in the end and I was back with the usual Heidi Ott and others. <u>Big thanks</u> due here to<a href="http://www.jennifersofwalsall.co.uk/index.php"> <span style="color: red;"><u>Jennifers of Walsall</u></span></a> who came up trumps as always. I ordered them 1st October and they were with me and in the house on the 4th!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ken also put the extra space on the back of the shop for the stairwell to the flat and the kitchen. It made a great place for the lighting board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><a href="http://www.smallworldproducts.com/"><span style="color: red;">Small World Products</span></a></u> kit - this is the way to go! It so beats pushing and pulling those plugs around with your teeth and nails. No kidding - I doubt that putting in the seven lights lights took an hour!! SWP is to be an article in DH & MS by me so I won't ramble here as well. Just check out the system if you haven't seen it before. Simple as a pimple on a flea's left leg!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This has the magnificent Yale lock from<span style="color: red;"> <u><a href="http://www.delphminiatures.co.uk/">Delph Miniatures</a></u>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honestly Kath, the door looks better than this - the light seems to have caught every blemish. As for your lock - some people working on Chocolat would dream about Johnny Depp - me? - I dream mini Yale locks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the door to the stairs down to the kitchen - we just get a glimpse of the corridor and the light at the top of the stairs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The outside privy has an actual; working Suffolk latch. It was a bit of a pig to do without decent tools but also fun and great to end up with something like this. I also got the lino down and the lavatory in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't bothered with a photo of the fourth door. It is just a false door in the kitchen - so no interest there, but it was another job done!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next came the sheer pleasure of putting my ELF cupboards in place. they have been waiting for such a long time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again not a flattering photo - looks better in real life. I cut and reassembled the lovely encaustic tiles and made something for the doorway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh poop - just spotted the diamond in the centre of each square - two pointing down and one pointing right. I can't live with one eye up the chimney so this will be a re-do. That'll teach me to crow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here comes the fun bit - I disassembled someone's lovely handiwork and decked out my Easter bunny display table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sort of Mad Hatter's tea party. hence tea pot and tea cup and saucer and tea packing box below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The (mostly) chocolate counter also had a bit of a re-jig as I had spare chocs and a carrot cake from my wrecking a display.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finished the chocolate window with more leftovers until anything better turns up. I prefer stand-ins to spaces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The final picture is what happens when you knock this over taking a photograph of it. You get to spend ages crawling round the carpet trying to decide what's chocolate and what's sock rubbish! Then a jolly half hour putting it all back.</span><br />
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The cooker will be replaced with a 1940's Speedway gas cooker and the sink unit with a 1950's version. I have the cooker kit - just need to actually make and paint it!! I have a 50's unit wending its way from the brilliant ELF - which also requires assembly and paint. I might even stump up for a 50's kitchen cabinet - not sure yet, but time is rapidly running out. One month to go before departure and we will only be home a few days in January and realistically I can't count on getting much done then!</div>
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<i>With 2014 marking 100 years since the
start of the First World War, Dolls House and Miniature Scene have launched a
World War One in miniatures competition to commemorate this catastrophic
event. Sponsored by some of the biggest
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Scene WW1 in miniatures competition provides an opportunity to get creative and
learn about the First World War plus win some fantastic prizes. There are three
categories for entries, clubs, individuals and under 16’s. Entries can be
anything from a single miniature item to a whole diorama scene and based on the
Home Front or the Western Front. Miniaturists will have until the 15<sup>th</sup>
July 2014 to submit their entry. Full details can be found in the November 2013
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passed since the First World War which affected every corner of the globe and
we felt it was right to mark the date in some way – it only seemed fair to also
invite others to do the same. Working alongside The Dolls House Emporium, Jane
Harrop Miniatures, Miniatura and Petite Properties we hope to inspire the
miniatures community to remember this event in the way we know best, through
our miniatures and what better way than to do this with a competition. The DHMS
team wish you all the very best of luck!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are looking for lino (from 1910 to 1970) check out this site: <a href="http://www.retrominiatures.co.uk/">Retro Miniatures</a><br /><br /><br />It is a new kid on the block - born today! and is absolutely fabulous. There are masses of choices and printed on brilliant material - looks just like lino - you can have gloss or matt finish and is really affordable. She also offers - Lino rugs!!! and fuzzy rugs and even Wall Lino - yes, trust me, it was a big deal once.</span><br /><br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411982028689325792.post-80320375114170407232013-09-24T12:47:00.005+01:002013-09-24T14:08:43.801+01:00Oops<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Realised bit of a boob yesterday - I was bashing on with Miniatura visit and showing you what I bought. I actually have folk who only follow the blog of the project they are interested in, so I always try to only share the appropriate stuff in each place. What a complicated life I lead; entirely self-made, of course! Luckily yesterday's stash actually were the things I bought for Chocolat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To see what I got in 1/48ths you'll need <a href="http://inquarterscale.blogspot.co.uk/">My Quarter Life</a> and the 1/24th stuff is <a href="http://numbersixsummer.blogspot.co.uk/">Number Six</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile back to Chocolat and its 'troubles'. The writing I am doing for the magazine is supposed to be following my Summer project in real time - allocating a particular aspect to each month. Again a self-imposed schedule which seemed like a good idea at the time. August should have been the electrics but I couldn't get the lights I wanted from Ray Storey when I saw him at York (?) until Miniatura. So I did a switcheroo and did chocolates in August and made a promise for electrics this month - knowing I only had a few days to do it in because we are away for the last four days of the month. Sadly Ray was unable to make my lights in time for the show. I am now taking something slightly different which he has promised to make and post on Wednesday - getting them to me for Thursday - we go away Friday - so that should be interesting! So, for now, I can't show you the lights I bought!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is from <a href="http://www.trulyscrumptiousonline.com/truly_scrumptious_site.htm">Truly Scrumptious</a> and Jane even brought my very own one to the show for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last, but in no way least, I snaffled a giant Easter chocolate table. The sad thing is that I will be wrecking this lady's lovely work because I want all the things on the table and not the arrangement itself. I did ask if she would let me order a bunch of stuff and let me have them loose but she doesn't do that. You won't find her anywhere but at shows - she has some great things and at a very good price. Steph's Miniatures (Doll House Delights).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have always been on the Sunday 10 - 4.30 and I have done all day. This time I did 10 -4 Saturday and 10 - 2 Sunday which was lovely - so much less tiring on the feet and the brain.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIzwgtgqSWnJB5cQr4Qn7_00XUJFkS_1defHrN-pEpdSJbo5_5nmzV2vENHgmdocxeYezrqDCnhcRn8ALpoy13RsTivREd9rEivkXxWftfJ9nF1dq-9852zc5EFso_-A7JcTbgctTSYk/s1600/IMG_3169.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIzwgtgqSWnJB5cQr4Qn7_00XUJFkS_1defHrN-pEpdSJbo5_5nmzV2vENHgmdocxeYezrqDCnhcRn8ALpoy13RsTivREd9rEivkXxWftfJ9nF1dq-9852zc5EFso_-A7JcTbgctTSYk/s320/IMG_3169.JPG" width="309" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She also made me the electric ring I needed for the drinking chocolate saucepan in the shop - she even remembered to put a brown flex and round plug on it as it is 1950. I might change the socket to a round and brown one - but what a star - talk about above and beyond. In addition she is incredibly nice about doing such tiddling commissions whilst working on things like a complete 1/24th fish and chip shop for someone. How very kind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not much here but more to come it is 9 pm and I am done for today - more tomorrow......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am as giddy as a kipper.... I just got my pre-launch copy of Dolls House Projects 2014 because I am in it.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trust me, in a totally unbiased way, I commend the Projects to you. There is a lovely spread of stuff and none of them beyond any of us attempting if we wanted to. Some are a bit more challenging than others which is as it should be. To top it all you can then enter competitions to win many of them. I have entered five out of the seven. I won't tell you what they are as I want you to have as much pleasure as I did as you work your way through the book.</span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com2